Psychological universals and nomothetic aspirations of social psychology

• Authors: Maciej Dymkowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The experimental social psychology basically rejects idiographism, though its nomothetism is only sometimes similar to the one that dominates in natural traditions. This is illustrated in the paper on instances of the selected theories. They often differ from their equivalents in the natural sciences because they describe the instruments of human psychological functioning which either are non-universal or appear with various frequency in different cultural and/or historical contexts, fulfill diverse functions there, and even sometimes have a different meanings.

Keywords

EN

naturalism; nomothetic science; psychological uniwersal; theory

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 93-100

Contributors

author

Maciej Dymkowski

• Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wroclaw Faculty, ul Ostrowskiego 30, 53-238 Wrocław, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10059-012-0011-8